By analyzing the literary devices and existential themes, this dissertation establishes the literary and philosophical significance of Sartre's Nausea. In Chapter I, the literary and philosophical assessments of Nausea are ...

The focus of this dissertation is on a comparative study of the notion of the transcendental self or, briefly, the Self as developed by Kant and Sarikara. The main purpose is, however, not simply to compare the views of ...

Chapter 13.3 of the Confucian Analects (Lunyu) proposes an intriguing solution to the problem of government: zhengming, conventionally translated "rectification of names." Confucius suggests that we should be particularly ...

Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls set out different versions of the social contract theory. In this dissertation, these different versions are treated as iterative accounts within an on-going meta-conversation. To ...

The aim of this dissertation is to compare Nietzsche's three transformations of the spirit, as set forth in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, to Confucius's personal experience of self-cultivation in the Analects. For Nietzsche, the ...